Vancouver Public Library Archive Photos - Relocation

Japanese Canadian Relocation Archive Photos

New World Hotel

Past and Present Photos

Old Japantown Diary Images

Scanned images from a diary of an old Japanese man who lived on Powell street.

Vancouver Public Library Archives

Old Japantown Photos:

Local Origins of the Drug War

Local Origins of the Drug War


http://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/local-origins-of-the-drug-war/

And some useful photos:

34 Market Alley. This alley was once a commercial strip named after the market that operated on the ground floor of the original City Hall, just south of the Carnegie Library, and where the Asiatic Exclusion League had their rally before rampaging through Chinatown and Japantown in September 1907.

A police constable in Market Alley, 1925. Photo: City of Vancouver Archives #SGN 386

The Acland-Hood Hall, popularly called Pender Hall, at 804 Pender Street was where Mackenzie King conducted his investigation into compensation claims stemming from the 1907 anti-Asian riot.

Windows broken at 201 Powell Street in Japantown during the 1907 Asiatic Exclusion League Riots. Although there was significantly more damage done in Chinatown, Japanese claims for government compensation came much quicker because Canada was trying to build diplomatic relations with Japan.

When an Old House Whispers

When an Old House Whispers...

http://househistorian.blogspot.com/2010/09/east-end-irredenta-strathcona-north-of.html

And here's some key photos I pulled from the blog:

250 Powell, Bunka Shokai Store, 1928

300 Block Powell Street 1929

Asahi Baseball Team - Powell Grounds 1931

Funeral Pan - Japanese Methodist Church March 5 1927

May Day Presentaiton 1932

Methodist Japanese Mission 1907

Powel Street City Hall 1893

Powell St City Hall 1931

Powell Street 1928

Tamura Building, 390 Powell St 1935